Wahoos Blank Barons 3-0
June 9, 2012
Tony Cingrani (1-0) set the stage for the Blue Wahoos on Friday night by fanning nine batters over six shutout innings, but the bats provided what proved to be more than enough support in the Wahoos 3-0 win over the Birmingham Barons at Regions Park.
Pensacola scored first when Ryan LaMarre came home on a sacrifice fly by Josh Fellhauer in the top of the first. Brodie Greene was the story offensively for the Blue Wahoos on the night. He made it 2-0 with his second home run of the season, a solo shot in the third. He finished the game 3-for-4 with a walk and two runs scored. He scored his second run on a ground ball to the shortstop in the fifth inning off the bat of Yordanys Perez to cap the Wahoos scoring.
Following Cingrani’s gem, Justin Freeman and Drew Hayes (S, 1) combined to work three scoreless innings in relief to nail down the win. Freeman struck out four batters over two innings, while Hayes retired three of four batters he faced in the ninth including a pair of strikeouts to earn his first save of the season.
All three Blue Wahoos runs were charged to Birmingham starter Cameron Bayne (5-5). He worked eight innings in the losing effort and allowed nine hits while issuing three walks. He struck out just one.
The Fish look to make it three in a row on Saturday night when they send right-hander Kyle Lotzkar (2-1, 3.03) to the mound against Barons righty Nestor Molina (4-4, 4.74). First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. from Regions Park.
By Tommy Thrall
Pictured top: Tony Cingrani struck out nine over six shutout innings for the Blue Wahoos. Photo by Chris Nelson for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
Ransom’s Pittman Named Top School Social Studies Educator
June 9, 2012
The Escambia Area Council for Social Studies has named Annabelle Pittman of Ransom Middle School as their 2011-2012 Social Studies Educator of the Year for middle schools. She was presented her award at Ransom Middle School and will attend the State Social Studies Conference in the fall.
Atmore Beats NWE 14-2, Tri-County Faces Atmore Today
June 9, 2012
Atmore defeated Northwest Escambia 14-2 Friday night in game one of the 2012 8U Machine Pitch District Baseball Tournament at the Northwest Escambia Bradberry Park in Walnut Hill.
The tournament continues Saturday and Monday between Atmore, Tri-County and Jay.
The game schedule is as follows:
Friday — Atmore 14, NWE 2
Saturday 10 a.m. — Game 2 — Tri-County vs. Atmore
Monday 6 p.m. — Game 3 — Losers from Game 2 vs. NWE
Monday 8 p.m. — Championship Game — Game 2 winner vs. Game 3 winner
Admission is $5 for adults, $2 for ages 6-18, and free for children under 5.
Scott: Families Can’t Afford Tuition Hikes
June 9, 2012
Gov. Rick Scott on Friday reiterated his stance against tuition hikes, as a number of state universities are planning.
Scott has called on universities to do more to prepare the workforce, but to do it with less.
“They have got to do the exact same thing … Florida households have had to do,” Scott said Friday morning on 97.3 The Sky radio in Gainesville. “We cannot continue to raise tuition constantly on the backs of our families,” Scott continued. “They cannot afford it…. I’m against raising tuition.”
The University of Florida Board of Trustees on Thursday moved to increase tuition by the full 15 percent allowed by law, though some trustees expressed some concern about the rising cost of a college education in the state.
By The News Service of Florida
Arrest In Murder of Domino’s Pizza Driver
June 9, 2012
A suspect is in custody in the murder of a 19-year old pizza delivery driver outside an Escambia County Domino’s Pizza.
Gary Demeatric Harrison, age 44 of Pensacola, is accused of attacking Tyler John Hinkle, a 2010 West Florida High School graduate, outside the Domino’s Pizza at 27 North Navy Boulevard on September 24, 2011. Hinkle was able to walk into the restaurant to seek help from co-workers before he collapsed and died a short time later at Baptist Hospital.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office attempted to serve an arrest warrant on Harrison at his home Friday morning. While investigators were attempting to cuff Harrison, he was able to push away from them and flee on foot.
The manhunt lasted about an hour before Harrison was apprehended by K-9 Argo in a wooded area near 519 Paula Avenue. Harrison was transported to a local hospital where he was treated for minor injuries.
Harrison is being held without bond in the Escambia County Jail on the homicide warrant and an additional charge of resiting arrest.
Lawsuit Challenges Florida’s Voter Purge
June 9, 2012
Two naturalized citizens and a Hispanic advocacy group filed suit in federal court Friday to block elections officials from purging the state voting rolls of individuals suspected of being non-citizens.
Backed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida and the Lawyer’s Committee on Civil Rights Under Law, voters Murat Limage and Pamela Gomez and the Mi Familia Vota Education Fund said the purge violates the federal Voting Rights Act.
The state didn’t get the green light for the project from the U.S. Justice Department, which must preclear changes to voting laws and rules in five counties under the VRA because of a history of racial or language-based discrimination.
State officials have argued that approval is unnecessary; the Justice Department has already begun looking into the initiative.
“This is precisely why Congress has re-enacted, and why we continue to need, the Voting Rights Act — to prevent state officials from interfering with the constitutional rights of minorities,” ACLU Executive Director Howard Simon said in a statement announcing the suit. “We now look to the courts to stop the Scott administration from assaulting democracy by denying American citizens the right to vote.”
Gov. Rick Scott and Secretary of State Ken Detzner have defended the purge, which relies on a state database of driver’s license information to find likely non-citizens. Those names are then sent to the supervisors of elections, some of whom have contended the scrub is illegal, or at least faulty, and some of them have refused to carry it out.
Detzner’s office said it would review the lawsuit.
Supervisors of both parties have said some of those named on the list are actually U.S. citizens. State officials have countered that supervisors haven’t remove those people, so the check is working as intended.
“We are not aware of any eligible voters who have been removed from the voter rolls as a result of our efforts to ensure the integrity of Florida elections,” state Division of Elections spokesman Chris Cate said in an email.
But in continuing to push for the purge, the plaintiffs say, the state is making it more likely someone will be wrongly removed.
“Defendant is proceeding to implement the new voter purge procedures notwithstanding: 1) widely-reported information showing that the targeting procedure is highly inaccurate; 2) strong opposition from numerous Florida county Supervisors of Elections; and 3) formal notice by the United States Department of Justice that Defendant’s implementation of the procedures appear to violate Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act,” the lawsuit says.
While Gomez hasn’t actually received a letter notifying her that she could be removed from the rolls, she says she is concerned that the purge could target her because she got a driver’s license before becoming a citizen. Limage did receive a letter.
“When I received the letter saying that they had information that I may not be a citizen, I was concerned that someone was taking away my citizenship,” he said in the ACLU news release. “I’m an American which means I can vote and that’s all I want to do.”
By The News Service of Florida
Elizabeth Ann “Lizzy” Boutwell
June 9, 2012
Elizabeth Ann “Lizzy” Boutwell, age 58 of Atmore passed away Thursday June 7, 2012, in Atmore.
She was retired from Vanity Fair Mills as a seamstress, born in Atmore on September 10, 1953, to William Jefferson and Ester Ardis Salter, Jr.
She is preceded in death by two sisters, Lottie Caraway and Dorothy Caraway.
Survivors are her husband, Joseph Floyd Boutwell, Jr of Atmore two sons, John Salter and wife, Amanda of Atmore, Joseph Boutwell III and wife, Autumn of Bay Minette; one daughter, Emily Boutwell and Jeffery Richardson of Atmore; three brothers, Charles Salter, William J. Salter, Jr. and wife Angie, Dwayne Salter and wife, Linda all of Atmore; three sisters, Dottie Harrelson and husband, James, Mary Janie Caraway and husband Pete, Shirley White and husband Larry all of Atmore; three grandchildren, Kara Tuberville, KeOnna Richardson and Joseph Boutwell III.
Services will be Tuesday June 12, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. from the Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home Chapel with Sister Helen Fretwell officiating.
Family will receive friends Monday evening June 11, 2012, at Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home in Atmore from 6-8 p.m.. Johnson-Quimby Funeral Home is in charge of all arrangements.
Eulene Cooper Carroll
June 9, 2012
Eulene Cooper Carroll, age 74, of Milton, went home to be with her Lord, on Monday, June 4, 2012. She was from Flomaton and resided in the Pensacola and Milton area for many years.
She was preceded in death by her Mother Bertha Cooper; her husband of 43 years Emanuel Carroll; father and mother in law Lonnie M. and Carmon Carroll; brother in law Clyde Carroll and brother and sister in law Lloyd and Betty Carroll.
She is survived by her daughter Carmon Cooley; son Mandel Carroll; grandchild Chana Sweeney; great grandchildren Damon Taylor and Cameron McDuffie; sister in law Yvonne Carroll; brother and sister in law Grady and Kathy Carroll; brother and sister in law Robert and Peggy Carroll; sister in law Linda Connor; sister and brother in law Barbara and Danny Glass, all of Milton. sister in law Eunice Melvin of Las Vegas, NV; brother and sister in law Lonnie and Bonnie Carroll of Jay; brother and sister in law Preston and Toni Carroll of Port Alle, LA, and sister and brother in law Sharon and Frank Cope of Houston TX, and a host of nieces, nephews and friends. Eulene touched many lives and will be truly missed by all who had a special place in their heart for her.
A special thank you to Bob Daniels, Karl Hazelwood, Dawn Downs, Chuck Mathews, Richard Pittman, Preston and Toni, Carroll, Robert Carroll, Sharon Cope, Linda Connor, Barbara Glass, Grady and Kathy Carroll and Jack and Cheryl Graham, for their support during this difficult time.
Funeral services for Mrs. Carroll will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday June 8, 2012, from the Gazebo of Memory Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Thursday June 7, 2012 at Lewis Funeral Home in Milton.
Active pallbearers will be: Karl Hazelwood, Chuck Mathews, Harold McClean, Tommy Downs, Jack and Jacob Graham.
Honorary pallbearers will be Bob Daniels, Grady Carroll, Lonnie Carroll, Robert Carroll and Preston Carroll.
Video: Watch BP Burglary
June 8, 2012
Surveillance video from burglary at Davisville BP about 9:20 p.m. on June 7, 2012.
Caught On Video: Davisville BP Burglarized
June 8, 2012
A burglary Thursday night at a Davisville convenience store is under investigation.
When the clerk at the Korner Kwik Stop (BP) on Highway 97 in Davisville reported for work about 4:30 Friday morning, she found that someone had broken out a window of the store. The store’s surveillance video shows a white male busting out the window about 9:20 p.m. Thursday, just after the store closed at 9 p.m.
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For a photo gallery showing the burglary and the investigation, click here.
The man arrives in a white extended cab pickup truck with an emblem or phrase over the front windshield. He parks in front of the store and spends several minutes in the truck. He exits and takes hammer to break out the window. He also tried unsuccessfully to break out the door glass. He then jumps through the broken window, rummages around behind the counter and tosses cigarettes and rolls of coins outside. He also tries unsuccessfully to push buttons in order to open the cash register.
While inside the store, he is seen using what appears to be towel in his hand in attempt not to leave fingerprints, but he can be seen on the video touching several items without the towel.
He was wearing a light colored t-shirt, long shorts that may have been swim shorts, flip-flops and has a striped towel over his head. At one point, the towel slips off his head showing most of this face on the video.
He appeared to flee the scene in the white pickup southbound on Highway 97.
The burglary is under investigation by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. A crime scene technician processing the scene was observed taking blood samples from the broken glass and apparently removing multiple fingerprints from the scene Friday morning.
Anyone with information about the burglary is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (850) 433-STOP (7867) or the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office at (850) 436-9620.
NorthEscambia.com will post the surveillance video later today showing the burglar in action.
NorthEscambia.com photos, click to enlarge.
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